Word: usual
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reason given by the Debating Council for these extra debates is that they wish to give every man who comes out an opportunity to have some practical experience. The unusually large number of men who have reported for debating this fall has made it necessary to extend the usual program in order to fulfill this purpose...
Hats off to Lampy. Our worthy colleague has performed the impossible; it has made even more popular than usual that feature of every properly appointed household--the Cosmopolitan. From the delicate and tactful "take-off" on the late lamented Ella Wheeler Wilcox to the masterpiece of cartoonist art entitled "Woodruina" Lampy scores a decisive victory in the realm of humor. Of all forms of wit burlesque is perhaps the hardest to carry off. Nine times out of ten it falls flat simply because it is overdone. But the editors of the Lampoon knew when to stop, and therein lies their...
Contrary to the usual rule, the race was rowed upstream instead of down, as the coaches considered it impossible for the crews to row into the gale that was blowing. At 5 o'clock, when the race started, it was almost entirely dark, and the crews could scarcely be distinguished...
...speaker at the meeting next Monday evening will be the Reverend Willard L. Sperry, D. D., minister of the Central Congregational Church, Boston. V. B. Kellett Occ. will lead the usual introductory ten-minute sing...
...means to bring down the price of food. The Commission secured the services of certain Socialist reformers in its investigation. The packers are making a last stand to preserve their private monopoly; and Senator Watson is their involuntary spokesman. But federal control of a private monopoly is not the usual definition of Bolshevism. Senator Watson balks at a name...